Sumana,
Yes, gladly. I feel that thread has served a good purpose, but it's true,
it's been at the expense of flooding the list with a lot of noise, and I've
contributed some of it. I do think that after a prolonged long dip into
less productive discussion, in the last exchange we have arrived at a point
where there is some consensus about what the problems are and how to attack
them, and hopefully we can leverage that into some policy reform that moves
the project forward. But you're right, it would be better at this point to
move that activity onto a wiki. (Probably worthwhile to point out one
avenue for that, a Commons discussion mentioned a couple times in the email
thread, in which a number of people are trying to hash out a workable
approach to swiftly dealing with extreme cases where illegal content gets
uploaded, and how volunteers and paid staff can work together most
effectively:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Making_it_easier_for…)
Thank you for mentioning my class (starting in under 24 hours!) as the kind
of thing you'd like to be hearing about on this list. I really appreciate
that! It honestly hadn't occurred to me to announce it here; but since you
have, it occurs to me that our most productive and active students in the
first round were overwhelmingly female; also my co-instructor is a woman.
So I suppose we are actually taking a little stab at the gender gap in that
class. If anybody knows people looking to take a six week class to learn a
bit about Wikipedia editing, please do point them our way!
-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Carol Moore DC <carolmooredc(a)verizon.net>wrote;wrote:
I second your proposal.
On 5/13/2013 9:36 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/**pipermail/gendergap/2013-May/**thread.html<…
shows me that "Topless image retention -don't give up" has stretched on
pretty long, and it seems to me like it might be better suited to onwiki
discussion instead. Maybe the posters who are very interested in
engaging in that conversation could hash this out on Commons or Meta and
send this list an update when you have a solid proposal or conclusion?
A few things I'd love to see more of on the gendergap list: sharing
useful or inspiring blog posts and best practice documentation,
promoting the School of Open's Wikipedia-editing course
https://blog.wikimedia.org/**2013/05/10/school-of-open-**
offers-free-wikipedia-course/<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/10/scho…
and similar courses to women, and learning from case studies of
Wikimedia projects (or other free culture/free software communities)
that have improved gender equity.
-Sumana
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